Demonstration of a repetitively pulsed magnetically gain-switched chemical oxygen iodine laser

✍ Scribed by G.D. Hager; D. Kopf; D. Plummer; T. Salsich; P. Crowell

• Book ID: 103036421
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 747 KB
• Volume: 204
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(93)89180-p

✦ Synopsis

Experimental results are presented for the power output of again-switched chemical oxygen iodine laser using a magnetic switch based on the Zeeman effect. Switching is achieved using rapid field nulling of a permanent dc magnetic field. A peak-to-average power enhancement factor of 12.7 has been demonstrated at a rep rate of 500 Hz. Numerical and analytic models are developed to calculate the output spike and are compared with experimental results.